The state of Rhode Island is working with UMass Medical School’s Office of Program Development on its State Innovation Model (SIM) project, which aims to transform the Rhode Island health care system to achieve better care, healthier people and smarter spending.
“Following our success supporting Vermont’s SIM project, we were eager to work with Rhode Island to assist in their ambitious and visionary effort to improve the state’s health system,” said Louise Eichman, executive director of the Office of Program Development, a unit of the medical school’s Commonwealth Medicine division. “We were delighted to receive the award, and to have the opportunity again to work with staff and leadership from across the health and human services agencies in their state.”
Rhode Island’s goal is to improve population health. The SIM project plans to do this by empowering patients, supporting providers and addressing the social and environmental determinants of health. The vision for improved population health includes integrated physical health and behavioral health.
The Office of Program Development was selected by the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services to manage the project, which is funded by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
